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News 2016
BEES Prizegiving 2016
The BEES Prizegiving 2016 took place recently at the School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Awards were presented across the range of disciplines in the School of BEES, honouring student achievement including:
(Pictures below)
Prize
| Discipline |
Recipient |
|
| Mulcahy Prize Best overall final year Zoology student |
Zoology |
Susanna Garcia Dominguez |
| Butler Prize Awarded to the top ranking Plant Science graduate on first attempt |
Plant Science |
Niamh Shanahan |
| Rising Star Award Awarded to the most improved BEES student from Year 2 to Year 3 |
BEES |
Eoin Downing
|
| O’Rourke Prize Awarded to the top ranking Zoology student in third year on first attempt |
Best third year student Zoology |
Ronan O'Sullivan
|
| Lord Mayor's Perpetual Trophy Awarded to the top ranking Environmental Science graduate on first attempt |
Environmental Science |
Katelyn Grant and Cormac Halley
|
| Devoy Prize Awarded to the top ranking Earth Science project on first attempt |
Earth Science |
Niamh Connolly
|
| Crawford Hayes Prize Awarded to the top ranking Ecology graduate on first attempt |
Ecology |
Jamie Darby
|
| Thorley Sweetman Prize Awarded for the BSc (Hons) mapping project awarded the highest marks in the final Honours examination. |
Geology |
Kevin Murphy
|
| Savills Prize
|
Environmental Science |
Isabel O'Mahoney |
| Nichol Prize
|
Geology |
Aisling Scully |
About the prizes:
The Mulcahy Prize is awarded in honour of Prof. Maire Mulcahy, Emerita Professor of Zoology at UCC and the first female Professor of Zoology at the university.
The Butler Prize is presented in honour of Sir Edwin John Butler, UCC graduate, noted plant pathologist and founding director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology.
The Nichol Prize is awarded in honour of Professor James Nichol, the first Professor of Geology at University College Cork from 1849-1853.
The O'Rourke Prize is awarded in honour of Prof. Fergus O'Rourke who served as Chair of Zoology at University College Cork from 1954 to 1982.
The Hincks Prize is named in honour of Rev. William Hincks who was first Professor of Natural History at Cork in 1849.
The Devoy Prize is presented in honour of Prof. Robert Devoy, School of Geography and Archaeology, UCC.
The Crawford Hayes Prize is presented in honour of Thomas Crawford Hayes. In 1922 Miss Isabelle Hayes bequeathed £27,600 to the National University of Ireland, in memory of her late brother Dr Thomas Crawford Hayes, for the purpose of "founding or aiding a Chair of Biology in the University and also for the furtherance and promotion of natural knowledge".
The Thorley Sweetman Prize is presented in honour of the late Dr Thorley Sweetman who was a postgraduate student and subsequently a staff member of the Department of Geology, UCC from 1979 to 1989.
Head of School @CullotyS kicking off the awards ceremony at BEES pic.twitter.com/8nz2rkLM97
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES) October 25, 2016
Lord Mayor @CllrDesCahil about to present the Lord Mayor's Perpetual Trophy. pic.twitter.com/ElfMxKEmHe
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES) October 25, 2016
A great celebration of student achievement at the BEES prizegiving ceremony pic.twitter.com/SeWFQtC7bA
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES) October 25, 2016
More images from this evening's prizegiving pic.twitter.com/xzcIoGLpfO
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES) October 25, 2016
Well done to everyone picking up prizes at today's privegiving. pic.twitter.com/UkJrZXHD1a
— School of BEES, UCC (@uccBEES) October 25, 2016